# 隕

| 隕 | U+9695, &#38549; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9695 |
| ← 隔 [U+9694] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 隖 → [U+9696] |

## Translingual
### Han character

隕 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓中口月金 (NLRBC), four-corner 7628$_6$, composition ⿰阝員)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1358, character 19
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41785
* Dae Jaweon: page 1862, character 19
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4151, character 3
* Unihan data for U+9695

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 隕 :
| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script |
| | Old Chinese |
| 員 | *ɢon, *ɢun |
| 圓 | *ɢon |
| 塤 | *qʰon |
| 損 | *sqʰuːnʔ |
| 縜 | *ɢun |
| 隕 | *ɢunʔ |
| 殞 | *ɢunʔ |
| 溳 | *ɢunʔ, *ɢun |
| 磒 | *ɢunʔ |
| 霣 | *ɢunʔ |
| 愪 | *ɢunʔ, *ɢun |
| 勛 | *qʰun |
| 鄖 | *ɢun |
| 篔 | *ɢun |
| 貟 | *ɢun, *ɢuns |
| 韻 | *ɢʷɯns |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɢunʔ) : semantic 𨸏 + phonetic 員 (OC *ɢon, *ɢun).

### Pronunciation 1

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yǔn (yun$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): wan$^5$
* Eastern Min (BUC): ūng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ong$^3$ / uong$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ún
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yǔn
*** Zhuyin: ㄩㄣˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yǔn
*** Wade–Giles: yün$^3$
*** Yale: yǔn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeun
*** Palladius: юнь (junʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /yn²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: wan$^5$
*** Yale: wáhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: wan$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wen$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /wɐn¹³/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: ūng
*** Sinological IPA : /uŋ³³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: ong$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɔŋ⁴⁵³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: uong$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /uoŋ³³²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ún
*** Tâi-lô: ún
*** Phofsit Daibuun: uon
*** IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /un⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /un⁴¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /un⁵⁵⁴/
* Middle Chinese: hwinX
Rime :
| Character | 隕 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 云 (35) |
| Final (韻) | 眞 (45) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 于敏切 |
| Baxter | hwinX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɦˠiuɪn$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɦʷᵚin$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɣiuen$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɦjin$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ɣjuĕn$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /ɣǐĕn$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /i̯ĕn$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yǔn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | wan$^5$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷrə[n]ʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɢunʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 隕 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yǔn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ hwin$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[ɢ]ʷrə[n]ʔ/ |
| English | fall down |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 隕 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16204 |
| Phonetic component | 員 |
| Rime group | 文 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 殞 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɢunʔ/ |

#### Definitions

隕
* to fall
* (literary) to destroy
* (literary) to lose
* (obsolete) Alternative form of 殞 / 殒 (yǔn, “to die”)

##### Compounds

* 隕星 / 陨星 (yǔnxīng)
* 隕滅 / 陨灭 (yǔnmiè)
* 隕石 / 陨石 (yǔnshí)
* 隕落 / 陨落 (yǔnluò)
* 隕鐵 / 陨铁 (yǔntiě)

### Pronunciation 2

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yuán (yuan$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄩㄢˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yuán
*** Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yuán
*** Wade–Giles: yüan$^2$
*** Yale: ywán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuan
*** Palladius: юань (juanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɥɛn³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jyun$^4$
*** Yale: yùhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jyn$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yun$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /jyːn²¹/

#### Definitions

隕
* (obsolete) Alternative form of 員 / 员 (“surroundings”)

### References

* “隕”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “陨”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 296.
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## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* to fall
* to die

#### Readings

* Go-on: いん (in)
* Kan-on: いん (in)
* On: えん (en)
* Kun: おちる (ochiru, 隕ちる)、おとす (otosu, 隕とす)、しぬ (shinu, 隕ぬ)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 隕
* いん Hyōgai
* on'yomi
From Middle Chinese 隕 (MC hwinX).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ĩɴ]

### Compounds

* 隕石
* 隕鉄
* 隕命
* 隕落

### Affix

隕(いん) • (in)
* fall; fall from the sky to the ground

#### Derived terms

* 隕(いん)石(せき) (inseki): meteorite

## Korean
### Etymology

From Middle Chinese 隕 (MC hwinX).

### Hanja

隕 (eumhun 떨어질 운 (tteoreojil un))
* hanja form of 운 (“fall”)

#### Compounds

* 운석 (隕石, unseok, “meteorite”)
* 운성 (隕星, unseong, “meteorite (one that has not fallen to the ground)”)

### References

* 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

隕: Hán Nôm readings: vẫn
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#### References

* Nom Foundation